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1934
 
   
Openly hostile to the Nazis, the architect Walter Gropius moves to England and three years later makes the USA his home      
1935
 
    
The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto       
1935
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann       
c. 1936
 
    
Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')       
1936
 
    
German architect Werner March designs spectacular buildings for the Berlin Olympics       
1937
 
    
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin West in Arizona as his winter home and studio       
1938
 
    
US architectural critic Lewis Mumford publishes The Culture of Cities       
c. 1945
 
     
Le Corbusier's use of béton brut (raw concrete) introduces Brutalism        
1948
 
     
Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section        
1949
 
    
US architect Philip Johnson builds the Glass House in Connecticut in the International Style